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during the early to mid90s I was banging away to (Acid)-Techno, Gabba, and Jungle - well these were my teenage years. simply had no time to explore the Ambient sounds of those years, although the bits and pieces I caught appealed to me. Now, becoming old and grumpy, this is possibly a musical...

Hardly a one way street , let's all remember the "Obama is a commie" , "Obamacare is communism" (just two examples), or the anti-gunlaw-hysteria on the right. And the "let's give the guy a chance" rhetorics coming from the right (which could be translated in "don't you dare critisize the...

His aesthetics are rather questionable too. I mean, golden rugs and curtains? (this may be not as insignificant as it firstly appears. Gold in connection with representation of political power has a certain meaning, at least for people of knowledge of European history)

If you're insinuating I am implying Trump is racist, I didn't. I just gave a prime example of what a leading figure of the KKK thinks of a Trump presidency.

Pretty much. That guy MEANS it.

Good Duke got mentioned - here's what he has to tweet:

Depends on where you put your emphasis on. Both groups may have a very similar formal way of education (both groups college educated), but likely differ in terms of not only income, but also values/political views. Probematic also when being used ("collage graduates vote this") as a category...

The middle class oscilates between self-guilt and self-righteousness.

Also, within the last 20,30 years within westrn societies, the value system of middle class has been imposed onto the working class, too. Meaning: your life is supposed to revolve not only around your "job", you are now supposed to have a "career" with all its implications. In the old sense of...

"working class pride" however is a thing of the past, as is the working class as a group of self aware people unified by their solidarity. Conservative parties throughout the West played a big role in demolishing the working class AS a class. But even worse were formerly social democratic...

to me that appears to be more about being a bit of a hypocrite and/or feeling guilty than self-loathing. IMO there is middle class self loathing, but in the context of not having met the self-imposed "goals" of reaching "upper" middle class /upper class status.

In the German speaking countries there is a deluge of articles and documentaries on the "Obama legacy", and the general tone usually is, he was such a gentleman, well mannered, well-spoken. But not much about his actual policies - and there isn't much he achieved within 8 years (dominant...

Totally random youtube find, yet revealing on many levels

I used to read his blog a lot around 2005, 2006. Not being from theUK and all, I sometimes didn't get all of what he was saying, but he put so much weight into his blog. What else can I say, he means a lot for many of dissensus' readers and contributors. RIP.

The stuff gets rereleased on DVD/BluRay constantly, at least for the German-speaking countries and also Spain and Italy. I think it got really to do with the fact they weren't originally released in English-speaking countries and the companies don't think the stuff will shift many units there...

Save The Tiger (1973) - excellent movie, Jack Lemmon as a middle class business man in the clothing industry when all he always believed crumbled and he has to resort to drastic measures.

Like with many political "concepts" the lack of a clear definition and your own point of view makes debating "populism" a bit complicated. I don't know how familiar people are with the histroy of the USA but in the late 1980s there was already a populist party in the USA with some success (for...

There is this tradition of French film making which appeals mostly to the arthouse-crowd and frankly, that branch indeed is somewhat questionable. But then there is this rich tradition of popular French cinema (the mentioned crime stories, but also tons of comedy) which was very successful at...

Yes, the inexplicable chart success of most that's in the charts, at least for me. If you know a little bit bout music theory/are a musician yourself it's not difficult to dissect the elements of popular music which vary only a little in all the chartsmashers. Yet it's impossible to write one...